Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-05-27
OHIGlHAL AND BORROWED.

SldIcNs
Ex-senator Davis of West Vir-
gina, now worth s20,OOO,0OO, was
once a railway brakeman. Now,
had he been a conductor in the
"good old days there would be
nothing remarkable in the story.
Sam Jones and Sam Small, the
reyivalists, are daily and nightly
addressing great audiences in the
Exposition building at Minneapolis,
the capacious hall beng inadequate
to accommodate the multitude.
While ex-senator Jones was vast.
ing his time counting Miss Palm in
Detroit a young woman of Florida
fell heir to s3,OOO,OOO and married
a local assemblyman in Mr.. Jones's
own city.
The Virginia Beach property
comprising hotel, &c, near Norfolk,
has been sold to a Pennsylvania
man for $4,000. 1t will still be
run as a summer resort. The prop
erty originally cost 100000.
The President, it is understood,
will not appoint successor to the
late Judge Woods, Of the Supreme
Court, until October. The Garland
boom will be nipped by the early
frosts long before that.
The Charlottesville JefersOaidn
says that Charles NJ. Brand, ofthat
Office, has written legibly on one
postal card, with a common steel
pen, 2,7S3 words--enough to make
more than three columns Of that
paper.
Editor Waterson evidently has a
fresh grievance against Secretary
Endicott. He says: at the war
department is as insolent to foreign
powers as it is to citizens of the
United States, we shall soon have
a big war on our hands,
A Long Island man committed
suicide by loading his gun with
water after ramming the wad down
on the charge, and then pulling the
trigger with his toe. AS his con-
stitution had been ruined by drink
ing irtoxlcants instead of water,
he was unable to resist such a sud
den attack of that usually harmless
fluid, and so he died Of water on
the brain.
1t is learned that Puryear, the
wife murder, who is confined in the
jail at Petersburg, Va, under sen
tence of death, has commenced
writing up a history OF his life, to
be published. He is afforded all
necessary accommodations to pros
ecute his work, and has fairly
progressed with it. 1t is expected
TO be ready for the Iprinter by the
last of June in full for publication
by the time of his execution, which
is set for July 18th.
The Lobdell Car Company re-
Gently purchased the mineral rights
on a tract of land containing 400
acres, at Max Meadows, Wythe
county, for $1,000. Miners were
put to work developing, and in q
short time uncovered lead or iron
orc of most excellent quality, and
apparently great extent. Men Of
experience and judgment say that
if these ores are of a depth cores
ponding to their wealth, that the
property is worth, and can readily
be sold for, $4,000.
An experienced Philadelphia
business man recently made triI
through Virginia, Alabama AM
Tenuessee-the Petersburg LRder
ApDeaI states-with view TO de
termlne which of the three States
would offer the greatest advantages
for the Investment of capital
When he returned he said "Tak
ing into consideration the three
questions, cost Of manufacture
quality Of product and distance
from market Il. e., freight 10 b'
paid,) Virginia possesses greater
advantages than either of the othel
regions for present investment o
capital" He and other capitalists
in Philadelphia "backed" theil
opinion with money, and the resul
was the purchase of 5000 acr o
iron lands and 5000 acres OF Goa
lands in the Clinch Valley in thu
Southwestern part of the State.
There never has been a period il
the history of this or any Othe
country (says Edward Atkinson
equal to the present IN this cOuntr.
in the following conditions: FRS
So largo a product made AM
distributed at SO low a cost in rati
to the capital invested, either il
production or IN the mechanism Q
distribution. Second So low
rate of profit suflicing to satisf
capital, and to induce further in
yestmentsin any or all arts. Thlr
So high a general rate of wage
earned by so small a number Q
hours of work per day. Fourth
So large q purchasing power i
each unit or dollar of wages or th
earnings when expended for th
necessaries or comforts Of life.-
Finh-In no previous period ha
the workman received so large
proportion OF the joint product 0
labor and capital, or its equivalen
..llAnr In nonAu or no0la